51 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestAfter leading their national team to victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, Argentines Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa join Tottenham Hotspur, becoming cult heroes in England after leading Spurs to the 1981 FA Cup Final. Things radically change, however, when a conflicted Ardiles leaves Spurs and returns to Buenos Aires after Argentine troops descend on the British-ruled Falkland Islands, asserting sovereignty over the territory and resulting in the Falklands War.
ESPN Films, creators of the critically-acclaimed 30 for 30 film series, will premiere a new series in April surrounding the 2014 FIFA World Cup on ESPN. 30 for 30: Soccer Stories will include a mix of standalone feature-length and 30-minute-long documentary films from an award winning group of filmmakers telling compelling narratives from around the international soccer landscape.
Writing
Stories ESPN would never greenlight today—too messy, too real.
Direction
Filmmakers who actually hate FIFA, and it shows.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series dropped right before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which became infamous for massive protests against FIFA's spending—making several episodes accidentally prophetic.
'The Two Escobars' director Jeff Zimbalist returned for this series, continuing his unofficial job as soccer's most trusted chaos documentarian. If corruption had a cinematographer, it'd be him.
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